[Foundation-l] Use of Wikimedia-Logo's in articles

[James Hare]

It's not like there's a copyright violation; as far as I'm concerned, Dutch
Wikipedia is allowed to use Wikimedia trademarks. However, the concern would
be if there's any forking involved, in which case it could turn into a fair
use issue. I'm aware that most Wikimedia projects don't allow fair use.

On 9/4/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/3/06, Tuvic <tuvic.tuvic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The discussion is about the logo's:  some editors say the content of
> > Wikipedia is GFDL, and the logo is not, so the logo should not be in the
> > article.
> > Others think the use is allowed, because the logo's are the
> > Wikipedia-logo's, and if we themselve can't use them, they are just
> > obsolete.
> > Eve other just say: it's on Commons, so it's alright.
> >
> It's probably not a violation of the GFDL, any more than Red Hat
> putting proprietary works onto a Red Hat Linux CD violates the GPL
> (which it doesn't).
>
> There also doesn't seem to be any guidance from the foundation, so
> that leaves it up to each project to decide for itself, I suppose...
>
> Anthony
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